Selfishness is, of course, their leading characteristic; in fact, the very sum and substance of their natures.

But selfishness is Protean.

He was made to be governed morally; to be under righteous law; law which, while it restrains passion, selfishness and crime, gives a man all the freedom that he is able and willing to use safely for himself, and for the commonwealth; all that is consistent with individual development and the national good.

They therefore make laws in self-defence; if thereby they would not restrain their own selfishness, they would restrain the selfishness of others; but that which is made a barrier to one bad subject is also a defence against all;thus men do restrain themselves by their defences against others.

They therefore make laws in self-defence; if thereby they would not restrain their own selfishness, they would restrain the selfishness of others; but that which is made a barrier to one bad subject is also a defence against all;thus men do restrain themselves by their defences against others.

This divine sympathy alone can break up selfishness, vanity, and pride.

He came in contact with the selfishness of barons and kings.

Wealth, honor, and power will produce luxury, pride, and selfishness.

she cried in dismay, but added with as sudden remorse: "Forgive my selfishness!"

"You are surrounded," concluded Mr. Downing, snapping his pencil in two in his emotion, "by an impenetrable mass of conceit and vanity and selfishness.

How surely the fires of selfishness blacken their perfection!" I'd almost forgotten Mr. Purdyand when I looked around, his face wore a peculiar puzzled expression not unmixed with alarm.

Folly is represented as donning cap and bells and mounting a pulpit, where the vice and cruelty of kings, the selfishness and ignorance of the clergy, and the foolish standards of education are satirized without mercy.

And he launched forth into an ironical eulogy on selfishness.

A certain gentleness of nature, which was far more physical than mental, far more an idle nonchalance than recognition of relations to others, had blinded them to her real capriciousness and selfishness.

"You are a practical embodiment of the beauty and expediency of selfishness.

Since he came out of the hospital he had not been able to talk to anyone; these people back here sickened him with their little preoccupations, their business, their pleasures, the restrictions to their pleasures, their selfishness, their ignorance and lack of comprehension.

If the old man in his selfishness had paused to gaze beyond the inevitable fact of death, Bobby reflected, he would have guarded with a more precious interest the drapings of his final sleep.

Because of his selfishness Silas Blackburn had lived alone.

Yet such was the villainous selfishness of the famine-stricken folk at Adrianople that, when the trains containing these supplies were passing through, a mob held them up and sold the contents to the inhabitants.

From infinite making of money and comfort, according to the laws of so-called political economy, and the dictates of enlightened selfishness?

Like every man, moreover, who fails to taste the joys of disinterested service for his fellow-men, Herod paid the bitter penalty for his own unrestrained selfishness.

For now burst forth that old whirlwind of anarchy and bigotry and selfishness and terror which Henry had curbed during twenty years.

Our policy toward the general colored races in this land has been one of cold-hearted and cruel selfishness.

I tell you, you'll see in these next months such cowardice, such selfishness, such meanness, such ignorance as the world has never knownand all in the name of Freedom!

I tell you, Ivan Andreievitch of the noble character, that the human race is rotten; that it is composed of selfishness, vice, and meanness; that it is hypocritical beyond the bounds of hypocrisy, and that of all mean cowardly nations on this earth the Russian nation is the meanest and most cowardly!...